See fright in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger:
affright, alarm, apprehension, dread, fear, fearfulness, funk, horror, panic, terror, trepidation. (Slang) cold feet. Idiom: fear and trembling. See fear- (Informal)
An unsightly object:
mess, monstrosity, ugliness. (Informal) sight, ugly. See beautiful
verb
- (Archaic)
To fill with fear:
affright, alarm, frighten, panic, scare, scarify2, startle, terrify, terrorize. Idioms: make one's blood run cold, make one's hair stand on end, scare silly (or stiff), scare the daylights out of. See fear
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